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J. J. PARKER. I MACHINE FOR PARING, SLIDING, AND CURING APPLES.

No, 20,814. Patented July 6,1858.

nag-l x r UNITED srn'rns PATENT OFFIDE.

J. J. PARKER, OF MARIETTA, OHIO.

MACHINE FOR PARING', SLICING, AND GORING APPLES.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J. J. PARKER, of Marietta, in the county of Washington and State of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Machine for Paring, Goring, and Slicing Apples; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which Figure 1, is an end View of a machine constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2, is a horizontal section of the same, taken in the line :0, m, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

This invention consists in the employment or use of a rotating coring bit, provided with radial fianches, a stationary screw and rotating slicing knives, constructed and arranged as hereinafter fully shown and described, whereby the operations of coring, paring and slicing are performed successfully and in a perfect and expeditious manner.

To enable others skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention I will proceed to describe it.

A represents a cylindrical case a portion of one side of which is open.

B is a cast metal plate which is provided at its lower part with a screw O, to form a clamp to secure the machine to a table or bench. The plate B, has an arm a, projecting upward at one end of it, the upper end of said arms having a horizontal tube D, attached to it, said tube passing longitudinally through the center of the cylindrical case A, and having a tube D, fitted on it, the tube D, having a slicing wheel E, attached to its front end. This wheel E, fits within the front end of the cylindrical case A, and is formed of a rim 6, and radial knives 0, which form the arms, said knives being formed of thin plates of metal, the front edges 0, of which are sharpened or tapered to form cutting edges. The tube D, is fitted loosely on the tube D, and is allowed to turn freely on it.

On the front end of the tube D, a screw F, is placed. This screw is formed by having a thin spiral flanch (Z, formed on or attached to a head 6, on the tube. This screw F, is directly in front of the center of the slicing wheel E, as shown plainly in Fig. 2.

G, is a shaft which passes through the tube D, and is allowed to turn freely within it. The back end of this tube has a crank H, formed on it, and a pinion f, is placed on the shaft adjoining the crank, the pinion f, gearing wit-h a corresponding pinion g, on a shaft 71, the bearings of which are attached to the arm a. The shaft 72., has a pinion 2', on it, the pinion i, gearing into a pinion j, on the tube D. The tube D, has a rotary motion communicated to it, from the shaft G, by means of the gearing f, 2a .7-

To the front end of the shaft G, a semitube I, is attached. This semi-tube may be of any proper length and it has an annular cutter is, attached to its outer end, said outter being formed of a series of pointed knives made on a strip or plate bent in annular form, see Fig. 2. At the inner end of the semi-tube I, a series of radial fianches Z, are placed,

At the front end of the plate 13, there is an upright curved bar m, which has a horizontal bar 12, at its upper end, the bar 11, forming the bearings for av shaft J, which has an arm K, attached to its outer end at right angles with it. On the end of the arm K, a knife head L, is fitted loosely, said head being allowed to turn freely on the arm, and having a paring knife 0, fitted to each side of it, see more particularly Fig. 1. On the shaft J a spiral spring ,1), is placed, said spring having a tendency to keep the cutter head toward the screw F.

The operation is as follows: The machine is secured to a table or bench, and the crank H, is turned, motion being thereby given the shaft G, coring tube I, and tube D, with slicing wheel F. The apples are grasped by the operator and the centers placed against the cutter is, which penetrates the apple, and the apples are shoved on the tube I, one after the other, the tube I, taking the cores out from them. The innermost apple when it reaches the screw F,

is fed by said screw toward the wheel F,

the rotation of the apple being insured by the fianches Z, and the screw F, in forcing the apple toward wheel E, causes its knives c, to slice it, it being understood that the apple and wheel are both rotated with equal speed so that the apple will be cut into slices in planes at right angles with its plane of rotation. While the apple is being forced toward the wheel E, by the screw F, it is pared by eithe r of the knives 0, the knife being pressed against the apple and also ranged substantially as and for the purpose 15 described.

2. I further claim feeding the apples past the paring knife to the slicing device, by giving the apples a rotating motion and using a stationary screw, the screw, slicing 20 device and paring knife being arranged relatively with each other substantially as specified.

J. JQ PARKER.

Witnesses JOHN TEsT, W. B. MASON. 

